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From 1998 to 2000 Esther Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Release 2. She is also a member of the boards of the Sunlight Foundation StopBadware The Long Now Foundation and a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute.

Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor entrepreneur philanthropist and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare government transparency digital technology biotechnology and space. On 7 October 2008 Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009. Dyson is currently focusing her career on preemptive healthcare and continues to invest in health technology.